Skip to Main Content
IBM Z Software


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Z Software products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Clear

IBM Developer for z/OS

Showing 1401 of 9253

Hide the "one-click" link that assigns the obsolete LPEX editor to 4 extensions in IDz "Preferences"

Like many of your customers, we have taken note of the fact that LPEX is no longer a maintained editor : we have worked hard to assign as many different types and extensions as possible to other more suitable (and maintained) editors. However, we ...
about 6 hours ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

Implement a BMS map editor/viewer

Costumer is interested in have a VS Code based BMS map editor, so they can do the same edits they are able to do on Eclipse. Costumer is moving to VS Code and needs the tool to have at least the same capabilities as Eclipse based IDE.
about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 10 Under review

Process activities tagged as always in the scenario with beginAt

Today, the beginAt option ignores even activities/actions/steps that are tagged as "always". When using the include_vars building block is required to dynamically load the deployment configuration, this must be processed. The idea is to * process ...
about 10 hours ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Submitted

Introduce a scope in zapp.yaml property group definitions

With today's schema of the property group configuration, the search paths are applied for the entire language and cannot be scoped to specific files or folders. Applications may require scopes of where the property groups configuration can be appl...
about 4 hours ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted
173 VOTE

Double check to execute changes to a table when executing an update, delete or insert query in db2 for z/os

It is necessary that when executing a query using the db2 for z/os tool that contains a statement of type INSERT UPDATE or DELETE, before the changes are applied to the table, a screen is added indicating how many records will be affected by the e...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 14 Future consideration

New method IPropertyGroupContainer.addPropertyGroup(IPropertyGroup)

As a developer of a plugin for IDz within my organization, I would like to have a method that allows me to add an instance of IPropertyGroup to a container. This method should be similar to the existing methods: - [createPropertyGroup(java.lang.St...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Planned for future release

IDz17 Client on Linux

Historically, the IBM Developer for z/OS client was available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. However, as of version 17.0.2, IDz no longer supports Linux operating systems. This change was made without prior notice or official communication regardi...
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Support merging of overlapping packages in wazideploy-generate

Wazideploy-generate accepts multiple packages and creates a merged package input file for the deployment execution. Today, it does not manage overlapping package well, e.q. Outline: * Pkg A containing a SAMP.JCL deletion * Pkg B containing a SAMP....
13 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Future consideration

Support for Endevor Processor Group Steps with SYSTSPRT/SYSTSIN Allocation via Execute Package Command

In the IBM Developer for z/OS (IDz) CARMA Endevor integration, CA Endevor® processor group steps that allocate SYSTSPRT or SYSTSIN datasets currently fail with allocation errors when executed in foreground mode or through the execute package comma...

Use Gitlab as Artifact Repository for wazideploy

We use actually Nexus as artifact repo to store our Build Results. During the Deployment process wazideploy-generate downloads the tarballs from Nexus and generates the deployment Plan an all other files we need. The Build Pipelines generate a tar...
11 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Future consideration